Hasta La Creative!

Whether it’s Scotland cheering on its own desolation, Louisville telling you that your life sucks, or South Carolina celebrating its purported gayness, tourism campaigns are no stranger to controversy. In fact, tourism officials tend to seize on any and all of their region’s attributes to lure visitors. Which is why we’re just counting the days until someone decides to use this survey of the hardest drinking American cities to attract tourists. The current winner is Austin, Texas, the Valhalla of college towns, followed by Milwaukee, San Francisco, Providence, and Chicago. We’re surprised that places like Memphis and Detroit aren’t in the top five. But we definitely think that, irresponsible or not, Providence should definitely make use of the results here, if only because we didn’t think a bar worth drinking in could fit inside Rhode Island.

—Posted by David Kiefaber